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I recently discovered, that Brad Warner got transmission from Gudo Wafu Nishijima, just like Jundo. Though I googled for it, I seem not be able to find out who else got transmission from him, does anybody know ?
I recently discovered, that Brad Warner got transmission from Gudo Wafu Nishijima, just like Jundo. Though I googled for it, I seem not be able to find out who else got transmission from him, does anybody know ?
Yes Peter, quite a few people...
Jeremy Pearson, Mike Cross, Eric Rommeluere, Nicole de Merkline,Nissim Amon, Gerhard Wolfgram, Michel Proulx Jean Marc Bazy, Michael and Yoko Luetchford, Peter Rocca...Many missing here.
The Dharma transmission is both a very personnal thing and a complete universal process. It is done through a particular teacher but it also has to do with the simple acknowledgement of what already is.
Not a clue!Originally Posted by Peter Lin
Well, I can point you to some folks ... many of whom have very different approaches to teaching and styles, by the way. It is like any family, in which siblings carrying the same blood and parents can come out with very different personalities. However, all are dedicated to Zazen. Sorry to do this by geography ...
Jean-Marc Bazy, who has visited us here in Tsukuba these past couple of years, is in Lyon, France ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/sit-a-long/with ... tenho.html
Jiun Eric Rommeluere is in Paris ...
Michel Proulx is in the south of France, Nicole de Mercline is in Belgium ...
Dagmar Doko Waskoenig is in Germany and Austria, and is a very interesting teacher who is very serious about the Vinaya, and became a full Vinaya nun ...
http://www.buddhistwomen.eu/EN/index.ph ... rWaskoenig
Yudo Juergen Seggelke is a nice fellow, also in Germany ...
Ritsunen Gabriele Linnebach is a very lovely, soft spoken priest who translated Shobogenzo into German, and recently spoke at the Dogen translation conference at San Francisco Zen Center
http://www.sfzc.org/zc/display.asp?cati ... ageid=2467
Peter Rocca is in Ireland, and in Japan with Gerhard Wolfram,
Michael Luetchford is in Bristol, England,
and Richard Morrissey is in London, nice fellow ... with 9 kids!
Taigu's teacher, Michael Chodo Cross, was the co-translator with Nishijima Roshi of the Shobogenzo into English, and is now translating a text from Sanscrit.
http://www.amazon.com/Master-Dogens-Sho ... 0952300214
Gustav Ericsson is a very nice chap, and also an ordained Christian priest in the Church of Sweden.
There are a couple of fellows in Israel who have gone into a New Agey direction.
Luis Diaz Broughton is in Chile ...
http://taichile.blogspot.com/2006/12/el ... chile.html
And then, of course, Nishijima Roshi has Dharma Heirs in Japan too, not listed here.
... and I am probably forgetting a couple of folks. I have often described Roshi's Lineage as "The Island of Misfit Zen Toys" (referring to an old children's program in the US about an island near the North Pole where all the broken and misfit toys went to live from Santa's workshop ... the wooden train with 5 wheels, for example, and the square basketball ... ) ...
Roshi has given a home to many serious Zen students who could not fit in in other places for various reasons, such as several of the folks in France and Germany who had issues with the internal politics in the Deshimaru Lineage. He only cares about Zazen and Dogen and few other things, and most of his Dharma Heirs are focused on the same.
Gassho, Jundo
interesting question! I didn't know they were "so many"...
I just allow myself to add Nicole de Merkline that Taigu mentioned.
She live and teaches in Belgium, here is her website http://www.zendogensangha.be
It isn't very important but if someone pass in Belgium and want to practice zazen here... first call me :lol: and then go sit with her :mrgreen:
Thank you, Jinyu. I somehow left her off the list by mistake.Originally Posted by Jinyu
No, take that back ... she was there!Originally Posted by Jundo
By the way, we recently discovered a film with my Dharma Grandfather (Nishijima Roshi's Teacher), Rempo Niwa Zenji, who was the Abbot of Eiheiji (Dogen's ol' temple) and the Chief Priest of the Soto Sect in Japan.
That's him in this film, about 1 minute 15 seconds in from the start (until the 4:30 mark), in Dokusan with a young priest and wielding (gently) the Kyosaku stick ...
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5uvap ... ant-2_news
The film was made by the Deshimaru Lineage, with whom he was also close. Here is a little more about his life ...
Gassho, J
Thank you Jundo and Taigu,
My fault!
Sorry I haven't seen her on your list! :lol:
ps: I love desjardins's film! It looks a bit like what it is sometimes (I mean an old documentary) but is still precious! And Niwa zenji is very calm and impressive in this film. It such a chance to have him in our lineage, and to share "this patriarch" with so many followers of the "Sawaki school of Soto Zen".
Yes Jinyu, Niwa is very very special to me. I always felt a very strong connection to him. When he became abbot of Eiheiji, he sat with the monks every morning ( which is very unsual, generally the abbots sits in his room). When he came to La Gendronniere to give his transmission to three of Deshimaru disciples, one of them saw him bowing secretly to every person passing by until a dog did show up, and guess what? Niwa bowed too.
My view is that variety of personalities in the collection of "misfits" as Jundo called them is actually one of the most encouraging aspects of Nishijima's legacy. I am deeply suspicious of students who are clones of their teachers, so I find it refreshing and honest that they are all so different from one another . . . one doesn't have to wear a powdered wig to play Mozart well, one just needs to practice a great deal and work with a good teacher.
Very well said Eika. Gassho zakOriginally Posted by Eika
here is a picture of Niwa and a poem written a few years ago:
Like a laughing and beaming cat
Eternal rambling of the brook
the cow enters the stream
your eyebrows like brushes
and teeth and tongue
gulping deep blue sky
dolls you playing with
at five or six years of age
dressing them endlessly
your shaved head under the sharp blade
the incense cloud and fragrant pine
the loud voice of the valley
shaking the rocks
rocking the silent moon
not making sense of anything
loosing track, wiping footprints
how can one walk the rain
what is the faith of trees, bees, birds?
Not answering
bleeding laughters
merely gazing
with gentleness
you ascend the Eiheiji seat
and bow at dogs in secret
my blood in yours
and yours in mine
as this all world
seal in space
not even a ripple
or stir
or chatter
or whisper
the seal where two moons
and turn into
each other
like a rambling and beaming cat
eternal laughing of the brook
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Nishijima's heirs sound a lot like the people that make up this sangha, very diverse and from all over the place. Jundo is just a chip off the old black, eh.


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Chicken with Garden Salsa
"Fresh chiles vary greatly in taste and price. A fruity serrano gives this dish authentic Mexican flavor, but jalapenos cost less and are more commonly available. To save time, use canned tomatoes and corn in the salsa." Mary Relyea - Canastota, New York
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes4 servings
- 1/2 cup lime juice
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (4 ounces each)
- 1 cup frozen corn, thawed
- 1 medium tomato, chopped
- 1 serrano pepper, seeded and chopped
- 1 green onion, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 2 slices Monterey Jack or pepper Jack cheese, halved
- In a small bowl, combine the lime juice, oil, garlic salt and pepper. Set aside 5 tablespoons. Pour remaining lime juice mixture into a resealable plastic bag; add chicken. Seal and turn to coat; let stand at room temperature for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the corn, tomato, pepper, green onion, cumin and 3 tablespoons reserved lime juice mixture. Cover and refrigerate.
- Drain and discard marinade from chicken. Lightly oil the grill rack. Grill, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from heat for 5-6 minutes on each side or until a thermometer reads 170°, basting twice with remaining lime juice mixture.
- Top with cheese; grill or broil 1-2 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. Serve with salsa.
Editor's NoteWear disposable gloves when cutting hot peppers; the oils can burn skin. Avoid touching your face.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 239 calories, 9g fat (3g saturated fat), 74mg cholesterol, 276mg sodium, 13g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 2g fiber), 28g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 1 starch, 1 fat.
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This is a great recipe. My family loves the lime flavor. You can make this with any salsa you like.
Jul 24, 2013
Nice flavor. I didn't use as much lime juice as it called for.
Jan 6, 2011
I really enjoyed this recipe! My husband said there was a little too much of a lime taste, but I loved it. I guess it's more of a personal preference.
Dec 6, 2009
Thanks for a great, quick, easy recipe. The lime kind of tenderises the chicken so it cooks up brilliantly without becoming dry and tough.

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MP Stephen Woodworth did what many thought was impossible – he put the issue of abortion back on the political front burner in Canada. By trying to establish a parliamentary committee that would look at medical and other evidence of whether the unborn child is human, he made the rights of the unborn a topic of discussion across Canada.
Of course, the issue has never gone away. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said the abortion debate is closed. What a silly statement! Elected officials have considerable power, but they don't have the power to state that people can no longer discuss an issue.
Indeed, despite the legalization of abortion in 1969 and the 1988 Supreme Court decision that tossed out the ineffectual 1969 law, Canadians have continued to talk about abortion. It is those politicians and mainstream media who say there is such a thing as the right to kill an unborn child that want to force down the cone of silence on the issue. And, when you control the microphone, you can do that to an extent.
The issue, however, will not go away. As long as this is a free country, people will continue to debate the pros and cons of abortion.
You have to ask why that is. From the secularist viewpoint which supports legal abortion, the pro-life movement is composed of mentally disturbed people who cannot cope with a changing world, are intolerant and desperately want Western society to revert to the Middle Ages.
A better answer is that it is simply true that the unborn child is a person. One either accepts that or spends an enormous amount of psychic energy in repressing that truth.
MP Irene Mathyssen, who opposed Woodworth's motion, said, "A fertilized egg is not a class of person." If that were so, one would think that Mathyssen would be only too happy to have a parliamentary committee establish that as fact. However, she voted against any investigation taking place.
Truth is a funny thing. You can deny it, fight against it, even call the people who announce that truth a bunch of lunatics. But truth itself is impervious to all attempts to suppress it. It continues to be simply . . . truth. It won't go away.
In the United States, it took centuries and a brutal, horrible war to deal with the truth that black people are human and possess natural rights. Even with all that and another 150 years to boot, the issue is still not settled in some people's minds.
There is no easy way to end the suppression of truth. But Stephen Woodworth helped Canada take a little step forward. He and those who supported him may find their career paths blocked. But elected officials with guts are willing to risk that.
Faced with a choice between gaining power and upholding truth, the righteous person will stand for truth. Every time.


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NESNE, NEAPNEA merge to improve training for next generation of New England journalists
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) � Two leading New England journalism organizations are joining forces to expand training opportunities for reporters and editors across the six-state region.
Members of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors on Friday ratified the merger with the New England Associated Press News Executives Association. Under the agreement, NEAPNEA will disband and transfer its membership and finances to NESNE, which becomes the region's pre-eminent organization for professional journalists.
Jim Campanini, editor of The Sun of Lowell and NESNE's outgoing president, said combining the groups ensures the next generation of New England journalists gets the training needed to achieve excellence.
NESNE members also elected new officers for 2013. William J. Kole, AP's New England bureau chief, becomes president; James L. Franklin of The Boston Globe is vice president; and Anne Brennan of the Cape Cod Times is secretary.


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|Great Snowy Owl
|Pellet soaking in water
What became abundantly clear to me after just a short time analyzing the bones was that this was not simply a squirrel or pigeon the owl had caught and eaten. I had discovered something far more remarkable, in fact, it could change how we see the world. So I must admit that I am not a "professional" anthropologist or Boney McBonester as I prefer to term them, and it is true that this was the first pellet I have ever found and dissected. I may not be "qualified" to say for certain what these bones are from, but
|Faerie bones
I don't want to toot my own horn but I have found something on my first attempt that Boney McBonesters have never discovered in centuries.
I am fairly certain these bones come from a Faerie.
My best guess is the faerie was flying about looking to chat with a gnome or something. Maybe was on an errand from Gandalf but that is something I can't know for sure. Ok well I am pretty sure she was on a mission from Gandalf. So lets just say she was on a mission from Gandalf of great importance and was not watching up in the sky as vigilantly as perhaps she should have been. I expect she was singing a song and the lovely notes caught the attention of the owl and it came down and ate her.
|Likely source of the bones
Delicious faerie dust marinade.
Anyway, so I really think this is my calling. As I said I have never actually done this before and on my very first try I have discovered indisputable evidence of the existence of faeries. I think that is pretty good for a first try. It encourages me to test out my theory that Unicorns were originally put on Noah's ark, but they fell off the deck, due to over crowding, and turned into Narwhals.


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It's almost always a mistake to learn too much about the artist you admire.
Think Picasso is a genius? Don't ask how he treated Françoise Gilot. Believe in John Lennon as an idealistic peacemonger? Stay away from accounts of his dealings with Paul McCartney.
And so, in that spirit, I advise you to approach Reading My Father, Alexandra Styron's candid, bruising memoir about her father, William Stryon, with caution. If you consider Styron one of the great literary voices of the 20th century, nothing in his daughter's book will change your mind. But you may find it harder to reverence his novels quite as highly after learning of the price that Styron – and those closest to him – paid for their creation.
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Otherwise, however, "Reading My Father," has much to recommend it. Styron is a truly gifted writer in her own right. And she has access to her father – his papers, her memories, family lore – that few others can deliver. Her book is both an informed (albeit dark) examination of a significant literary figure and an engaging (albeit poignant) memoir about growing up in the shadow of fame.
William Styron, of course, has already told the world much about his own inner darkness. In addition to his three highly acclaimed novels ("Lie Down in Darkness" in 1951; "The Confessions of Nat Turner" in 1967; and "Sophie's Choice" in 1979), Styron was also the author of "Darkness Visible," a 1990 nonfiction account detailing his horrific battle with depression.
But Alexandra, Styron's youngest child of four, has issues of her own to hash out.
Who was this man? "At times querulous and taciturn, cutting and remote, melancholy when he was sober and rageful when in his cups, he inspired fear and loathing in us a good deal more often than it feels comfortable to admit." That's how Styron remembers her father's domestic side. While his colleagues recall a friend and critic who was "patient, thoughtful, and enormously generous," she feels stuck with the memory of a man who entertained himself by telling his little daughter that he was going to sell her pony to a glue factory and by suggesting that the "imbeciles" in a nearby state institution might escape and "do vile things" to her.
Styron never really succeeds in solving the mystery that was her father. She traces him from his lonely Southern boyhood (his mother died young and his stepmother openly disdained him), on through his early career struggles (when it was his own adoring father who kept him afloat), to his years of great success (she was 12 when "Sophie's Choice" was published) and then, sadly – on to the breakdowns in 1985 and 2000 that finally incapacitated him.
She offers interesting insights into the affections and experiences that helped to shape him, including his great love for his father, his disaffection with the South and its attitudes, and his all-consuming need to prove himself as a novelist.
But she remains puzzled as to the cause of his worst anguish. "Did my father's depression steal his creative gift?" she wonders. "Or was it the other way around, an estrangement from his muse driving him down in increments till he hit rock bottom? There's no single answer, no simple trajectory."
Her own unhappiness seems more clear-cut. "[W]hat I'd grown up knowing," she writes, was "a father always at home upsetting the applecart and a mother who took every opportunity to run away."
As for growing up among the rich and famous, she paints an often appealing picture of an affluent, "haute bohemian" household accustomed to Christmas piano parties at Leonard Bernstein's and spontaneous summer visits from Ted Kennedy. But, she notes, eventually there was a price to be paid for all those easy childhood pleasures. As a young woman she beat herself up trying to find a talent that would ensure her an enduring place in the world of the famous. She landed in thrice-weekly therapy and even as she walked home from those sessions in tears, she recalls wryly, "I kept running into acquaintances who just had to tell me how 'Darkness Visible' had changed their lives."
"Reading My Father" is not a vengeful book. Styron clearly loved her father very much. Rather than angry, she more often comes across as puzzled at the hand dealt her as the daughter of a "genius."
"Your father was a real writer, a real artist," his best friend tells her." If you have to indulge somebody like that, you do."
Styron herself is clearly not convinced. "Maybe," she writes. "Or maybe not. Having been born into the system, how would I ever know?"
Marjorie Kehe is the Monitor's book editor.
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Fortunately, the detectors showed no signs of poison; the wind was blowing the gases away from the building. Phone lines in the battered facility remained operational, and the engineers quickly established contact with their colleagues at the mission control center, perched on the mountain slope some three miles downrange from the site, and with the United States. Back home, stunned engineers, and soon TV viewers around the world, watched footage of the rocket starting to veer off course even before it cleared the tower. To a trained eye, the images also revealed that the rocket's nozzles were swiveling wildly in an effort to correct the trajectory.
One of the people standing on the roof of the satellite processing building captured the accident on video, even though he was thrown off his feet by the blast wave (the video can still be seen on YouTube). The footage confirms that the rocket crashed just across the road from the hotel for the foreigners. The impact site was right next to the gate of the center, where the large crowd had gathered to watch. Chinese officials claimed that all villagers had been evacuated before the launch, but those claims have been disputed.
The shaken Americans were told that a bus would soon arrive to transport them back to Xichang, but it was repeatedly delayed, and didn't arrive until well into the afternoon. In the first few hours after the explosion, the stranded engineers were not anxious to leave their relatively secure quarters and go down the valley past the impact epicenter. But suspecting that Chinese authorities were delaying the bus departure to clean up the crash site, Campbell and one of his colleagues could not resist the urge to investigate.
They took vapor detectors, got on their bicycles, and, taking advantage of the road going down into the valley, raced past the armed Chinese guard, who they'd been told had only one bullet in his rifle.
As they approached their hotel, the scale of devastation became fully apparent. In the nearby residential complex, hardly a single structure had escaped damage. At the impact site, several craters punctured the granite mountainside, and the resulting dirt and rocks had buried the railway line below. Just 200 feet to the east of the epicenter, the American hotel and a larger dormitory for Chinese specialists bore the brunt of the blast, though both buildings still stood. But a barbershop and a small market in front of them were flattened.
Campbell and his friend entered their hotel. Practically every door, window, and piece of furniture was destroyed. Air conditioners were hanging by their wires, toilets were thrown into the hallways, and covers of an underground sewage system pierced the floor. Peculiarly, a clock in the lobby was still hanging, stopped at around 3 a.m.
"There were holes in the walls," Campbell recalls. "In my room, fragments from the rocket were embedded into the backboard of my bed. Anybody who had left their belongings in the hotel would later discover that pieces of cloth had been thrown out the window, only to be sucked into different rooms by the backward-rushing wind that followed immediately after the explosion. Those careless enough to leave their possessions behind found them littering the corridors, the roof, and the courtyard.
Outside, trees were snapped in half or completely uprooted. In a little park in front of the hotel, a monument to ancient Chinese rocketry had been blown off its pedestal.
What Campbell and his friend did not see were human casualties. At the time they reached the residential area, hundreds of Chinese soldiers and military vehicles were flooding the area, and the Americans suspected that one of the their main tasks was to remove bodies. Eyewitnesses in Xichang would later describe many flatbed trucks carrying what appeared to be covered human remains to the military base and hospitals in the town, along with dozens of ambulances.
The bus for the Western engineers finally arrived, and they headed back to Xichang. The route took them through a village just outside the main gate of the launch center, where the road was jammed with vehicles and animals. The passengers were horrified by what they saw. "Every house for several hundred meters was leveled," observed the diary-keeping engineer.


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Ok so i have been trying to figure this out for about a month now.
The case: I have a blog network with unique content on each post and at the end of each post each blog links to x1.com/unique-url-for-each-post before linking to x1 in the post i use a redirect with like this: theblog.com -> redirect-url.com/redirect.php?=x1.com/unique-url-for-each-post -> x1.com/unique-url-for-each-post
(all links at the bottom of the posts have no-follow)
For some strange reason about a month ago all blogs which i have done this on lost around 90% of their traffic.
Could this be the cause of the penalty? Is this type of linking considered as link farms by google?
All help and tips are greatly appreciated!


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When Nadine Marroushi first arrived in the northern Sinai Peninsula in Egypt recently, she saw a restful, even quiet, place. But that didn't last for long.
"Literally 15 minutes later, I saw a roadside bomb go off as an army APC [Armored Personnel Carrier] turned a corner," she recalled.
The Egyptian army is waging a campaign against Islamic militants in the region and Marroushi is one of just a few Western journalists who have been able to visit the area and report on what they've seen.
Her report in Slate Magazine paints a dark picture of what is happening there. And civilians have been caught in the middle of the Egyptian military's campaign.
"What I found was pretty shocking. I found a lot of civilian homes coming under attack, I found that a woman had been killed, a child had been injured," she said.
The Northern Sinai was neglected, Marroushi says, during the government of Hosni Mubarak, who was forced from power some two years ago during the Arab Spring protests. But the Sinai, with its border with both Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, has always been a flash point.
And that's meant restrictions on the population. Under Mubarak, local residents were banned from the police force and from serving in managerial positions in government — forms of discrimination that continue today.
Militants have used Mubarak's ouster, and the resulting instability across Egypt, as an opportunity for attacks on the Egyptian army and police. Those forces, in turn, have responded with this crackdown.
"People on the ground are afraid," Marroushi said. "So many people were crying out for help saying, 'who do we turn to?'"


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
do you know how to obtain the ocelots protocols?
In the GSD wiki they talk about filling in the blank spaces, but with what?
cmdId = cmd.id_ # Command ID: ON, OFF, SET LEVELcmdTo = cmd.devidto_ # Device ID in LinuxMCEdevPort = device_.childdevices_[cmdTo].devdata_[12] # 12 contains a port/channelchildType = device_.childdevices_[cmdTo].devtemplid_ # Template ID to know type of device: switch or dimmercase cmdId when 192 #192 is ON command = '<your ON command format>' when 193 #193 is OFF command = '<your OFF command format>' when 184 #184 is Level of dimmer command = '<your SET LEVEL command format>' endconn_.Send(command)
I don't think you can utilize GSD easily for your type of device.


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Should I stick with .114 v3 or go to what I believe is .122 v3.5
My device runs alright now with v3. I get about 41 megs on fresh boot, battery can last me 24 hours on full load or 48 on slight load. Device lags just a little bit.
Currently stays in 1XEV unless I'm in highly enclosed areas. then it goes to 1X
Is it worth upgrading?


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I'm using HanDbase Professional for Windows version 4.7.7 Build R2. When I print in "record view" the correct graphic image (a signature) shows up properly associated with each record. The same thing happens when printing in "List View",
However, if I have a filter in place, for example only show the last three records, and I print in "List View" the wrong graphics (or no graphics) are printed. In "Record View" it does print correctly.
Any help you can give me is appreciated.
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WW1 Websites I cannot do without – CWGC
There are hundreds and hundreds of online resources to help you learn more about the First World War and the soldiers that fought in it, indeed, if you want an (almost) exhaustive list of all military research websites, then check out my interactive pdf which lists, links to, and describes thousands of very useful websites…
However, there are half a donzen or so websites that personally, I keep coming back to time and time again when I am researching WW1 heroes..over time, I will share with you my fave WW1 websites…(in no particular order). First up is the Commonwealth War Graves.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org
This free online resource is simple to use and brilliant for tracking down those soldiers who died in both World Wars. The Debt of Honour Register is a database of about 1.7 million (count them) men and women the Commenwealth who died, as well as the 20,000 plus cemeteries and memorials where they are commemorated. There is also 67,000 civilian dead on the register.
Searches are carried out by surname, and can be refined by adding initials, years of death, nationality and which force served in. Once you hit the 'go' button you will then see a list of hits in tabular form noting name, rank, regiment, date of death, age and grave/memorial reference. When you find your chap, you can click on his name and more information such as any gallantry medals, next of kin, and the important unit information is also shown. You can print out a 'certificate' which gives you all this information on one page which is a nice touch…
However, the site is not just about the register, there are good online learning areas, specifically on the Battle of the Somme, Ypres and the German Offensive of 1918. There is also a new North Africa (1940-1943) area which is very good.
A related site is the War Graves Photographic Project (http://twgpp.org) which aims to hold a photographic record of every Commission head stone and memorial.


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"Kinesthetic Symphony: Ensemble Annual Dance Concert" showcases works choreographed by faculty and guest artists and performed by UH's pre-professional dance company, the Dance Ensemble. Performances run April 27 – 29 in UH's Wortham Theatre (located inside the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts). Show times are 7:30 p.m., April 27 and 28 and 1:30 p.m., April 29.
Tickets are $20; $15 for UH faculty, staff and alumni; and $10 for seniors and students. To purchase tickets, call 713-743-2929.
Faculty and guest artists presenting works include:
- Karen Stokes, professor and head of UH dance division, will deliver a new work focused on the investigation of the relationship between the group and the individual.
- Becky Valls, assistant professor, will debut "Plundering." The piece features a quintet performing to traditional Klezmer music, as well as the music of the Klezmatics and Balkan Beat Box.
- Teresa Chapman, associate professor, will present "Rusalki." The work incorporates the haunting sounds of Kitka, women's vocal ensemble, to provide an otherworldly atmosphere that celebrates the feminine spirit.
- Jennifer Sommers, adjunct faculty member, will explore the nature of family, life balance and relationships in "On A Circus Theme."
- Jackie Nalett, adjunct faculty member, uses video images of coastal landscapes and the ocean in "Cancao do Mar." The pieces tells the story of a final dance between lovers…one of whom perished at sea.
- Toni Valle, adjunct faculty member, will premiere "SpiderWeb." In this work, a woman's personal history is depicted as a complicated, entangling web.
- Catalina Molnari, UH alumna, will offer a first look at "Tiny Boxes in My Hand." The piece focuses on life's truths and how they can either be a coping mechanism or an obstacle.


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text: Despite heavy rains and other lessthanideal conditions that took centre stage at the 2012 Seiko Golden Grand Prix on Sunday (6), several notable performances were produced at this IAAF World Challenge meeting.Three invited superstars - Liu Xiang, Allyson Felix and and Amantle Montsho - dominated their event as expected. Liu won 110mH with 13.09, nearlya quarter-of-a-second ahead of second place Omo Osaghae, while Montsho, the reigning World 400m champion, won her specialty in 50.52, more than a full second ahead of runner-up Joanne Cuddihy. Felix won the 100m in 11.22, a hefty 0.16 ahead of Melissa Breen. Japanese national record holder Chisato Fukushima was third with 11.39, not exactly the time she was shooting for. It was an auspicious start for Liu almost matching the time of 13.07 he recorded in his outdoor debut last year in Shanghai. For Montsho it was her second 400m of the season but first race in Japan. She also nearly matched her time from last year's outdoor opener, 50.41. For Felix it was her first individual outdoor event of the season, having run several relay events back in the US at Penn Relays and JJK/Johnson meet. "I know where I am now and what I need to improve, so I am excited to start working on things," Felix said. She also said that 200m is her favorite event and whether she will run the 400m or not will be decided with her coach before the US Olympic Trials. Felix was able to race in relatively good weather for the day. However both Liu and Montsho were not so fortunate. Montsho said, "I had a great race even though the weather was bad." Liu said, "It was my first outdoor race. The track was wet and the wind was strong, but I am satisfied with my time." The conditions were so bad that at one point both the Pole Vault and Javelin Throw were suspended for about 10 minutes.Nazarov takes early lead as Hammer Throw Challenge beginsDilshod Nazarov (TJK), the 2010 Asian Games champion, won the kick off of the men's 2012 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge with a modest distance of 77.34m ahead of Pawel Fajdek of Poland who threw 76.31m and Marcus Esser of Germany who reached 76.29m. The 2000 Olympic champion, Polad's Szymon Ziolkowski, was only fifth with 73.72m Alem Gereziher of Ethiopia won the women's 800m with 2:05.06, while Job Kinyor of Kenya won the men's 800m with 1:47.05. The times wwere slow because of strong wind as both Gereziher and Kinyor expressed after the race. Although 2008 Olympic champion Brimin Kipruto did not start the race, the first four runners all dipped under the old meet record. Jairus Kipchoge won with 8:18.06 while Conseslus Kipruto was second with 8:19.49 and Roba Gari third in 8:19.62. The World Junior champion Jonathan Ndiku was only fifth in a slow time of 8:26.01, while Mekonnen Gebremedhin, bronze medalist at 1500m at the World Indoor Championships, was only eighth with 8:59.06. It was not an auspicious debut in the event for Gebremedhin. Su Bingtian of China, 2011 Asian Champion, won a tight men's 100m race. He clocked a wind-assisted 10.04 (+2.9), only 0.01 ahead of Mike Rodgers, who in turn was only 0.02 second ahead of 2003 World champion Kim Collins, who turned 36 a month ago. The men's Pole Vault was badly affected by wind. The winning mark was just 5.32m, a height only three vaulters cleared. Yangshing Yang of China cleared on his first attempt and was declared the winner. Mixed fortunes for the 'home' teamThe host country's victories came in six events – the men's Javelin Throw, 400m Hurdles, Long Jump and 4x400m Relay, and in the women's Long Jump and 4x100m Relay. Genki Dean threw the Javelin 81.43m with his first throw - although he never recorded another 80-metre throw it was enough to win. Yukifumi Murakami, the 2009 World Championships bronze medallist, threw 80.26m in the last round to finish second. It was the second consecutive meet with over 80 metres for Dean while it was first 80-metre throw of the season for Murakami. Although he failed to hit the eight metres, Yohei Sugai won the Long Jump against such big names as 2006 World Indoor champion Ignisious Gaisah and Fabrice LaPierre, the 2010 World Indoor champion. Takayuki Kishimoto may be the next star at 400m Hurdles, and event Japanese have excelled in historically. After defeating American Johnny Dutch again, Kishimoto has now won six straight 400m Hurdles races after his failure in Daegu. The women's 4x100m Relay squad was shooting for the national record. Although they won in 44.28, the record did not come to them.Ken Nakamura for the IAAFClick here for RESULTS


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Honeywell to Support Micro Air Vehicle
September 20, 2012
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Honeywell International, Albuquerque, N.M., is being awarded an $8,286,161 contract for post-production support services for the RQ-16B T-Hawk Block II Micro Air Vehicle. The RQ-16B is a rugged, field-repairable, single operator, vertical launched, unmanned air system that supports explosive ordnance disposal technicians and is currently used in theater to support Operation Enduring Freedom. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Indian Head Division, Indian Head, Md., is the contracting authority.


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Announcing the Fifth Annual Carrboro Anarchist Book Fair!
From Carrboro Anarchist Book Fair
The fifth annual Carrboro Anarchist Book Fair will take place the weekend of November 22, 2014 in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina. Don't miss one of the Southeast's most exciting educational and agitational events!
In the first four years of its existence, the Carrboro Anarchist Book Fair has coincided with a higher proportion of nationally reported riots and building occupations than any other book fair worldwide. This book fair is the ideal occasion to strike back against murderous white supremacist policing, create an anti-capitalist autonomous zone, or just read a lot of great books and 'zines.
This will be an especially busy autumn for central NC. On October 4, Carrboro's monthly Really Really Free Market will celebrate its ten-year anniversary with a massive free festival. Meanwhile, our decades-running community center, Internationalist Books, is moving from Chapel Hill to a new and improved location in Carrboro…making this the first ever Carrboro Anarchist Book Fair to actually hold events in Carrboro! (more…)


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The 49ers clearly weren't thrilled with runing back Brandon Jacobs' griping, as was evidenced by the fact coach Jim Harbaugh wouldn't talk about him earlier today.
But rather than cut him, the team has suspended him for the final three games of the regular season, according to Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com.
Had the 49ers released him, which Jacobs would certainly have preferred, he would have possibly ended up with a team the 49ers have to beat at some point in the next month. This way, they simply put him in the cooler, keeping a player they weren't using anyway from becoming (more of) a distraction.


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When we're not Wikipedia-ing random shit and then immediately talking about said shit like we've known it our whole lives, it seems we Millennials are subject to the same gender disparities in our burgeoning careers as any other age group, only perhaps more so. A recent Canadian study has found that Millennial women are more likely to face an "unconscious bias," perpetuating the assumption that young women do not have what it takes to assume more responsibility.
According to Robin Wright, the director of HR management research at the Conference Board:
"This 'unconscious bias' means young women are consistently underestimated and overlooked, right from the outset of their careers...The effects are both cumulative and costly—for young women who are denied access to critical developmental opportunities, and for organizations that fail to recognize and develop top talent..."
While millennial women are closing that wage gap, there is still the whole issue of advancing into management and executive levels, an area where women's exclusion is only beginning to receive attention and action.
There is a good chance that 2013 will go down as the one year in all of history when young people ruined things with their fun. Music?! Fucking Millennials. The Internet? Fucking Millenials. "'Hook-up culture?'" Fucking Millennials. (HA!) But while we're taking on this hazing ritual that ever generation goes through in order to be initiated into society, we are also taking on extensions of the same biases that affected previous generations. And #sorrynotsorry, but our #vintage #repurposed burlap potato sack backpacks can only handle one burden at a time.
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To sum up: Bachmann is a certifiable evangelical nut-case (no surprise), an advocate of creationism, former abortion clinic protester, potential theocrat, and former IRS litigator -- but a slacker who stayed home most of the 4 years she worked there because she was on maternity leave. She worked on only six cases and tried exactly one case in court:
...in 1992 Bachmann sought six thousand dollars in taxes from a Chippewa Indian who failed to report three years of income from Youth Project, Inc., a community-organizing nonprofit dedicated to "social justice and peace."If only she had done the same to a community organizer just getting started in Chicago at that time.
If you read the New Yorker story, you'll see there is evidence for the contention that Bachmann's evangelism extends not only to disdain for the Renaissance, but also leans toward a form of religious theocracy. The evidence revolves around her admitted respect for an evangelist/filmmaker named Francis Schaeffer, who has been called a key figure in the rise of the Religious Right in politics. According to New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza,
That also was another profound influence on Marcus's life and my life, because we understood that the God of the Bible isn't just about Bible stories and about Bible knowledge, or about just church on Sunday. He is the Lord of all of life. Every bit of life, including sociology, theology, biology, politics. You name the area and walk of life. He is the Lord of life. And so, as we went back to our studies, we looked at studying in a completely different light. Not for the purpose of a career but for a purpose of wondering, How does this fit into creation? How does this fit into the code and all of life that is about to come in front of us? And so we had new eyes that were opened up as we understood life now from a Biblical world view.
Schaeffer "was a tremendous philosopher," Bachmann told me. "He wrote marvellous books and was very inspirational." She said that Schaeffer "took Christianity beyond the Bible," and that he showed "how the application of living according to Christian principles has helped the culture for the better." She added, "He really tried to call Christians to do more than just go to church...So what was Schaeffer's film? It consists of
...ten episodes tracing the influence of Christianity on Western art and culture, from ancient Rome to Roe v. Wade. In the films, Schaeffer... condemns the influence of the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, Darwin, secular humanism, and postmodernism.Well, I can't criticize any criticism of post-modernism, but it doesn't get more obscurantist than that. (Note: a proper definition of "obscurantist" is "opposition to human enlightenment and knowledge", but many on-line definitions are badly corrupted.)
The first five installments of the series are something of an art-history and philosophy course. The iconic image from the early episodes is Schaeffer standing on a raised platform next to Michelangelo's "David" and explaining why, for all its beauty, Renaissance art represented a dangerous turn away from a God-centered world and toward a blasphemous, human-centered world.Well, yes, that was the point, after all. This is actually old stuff for the creationist/evangelist crowd... 500 or 1000 years old.
...the film shifts in the second half. In the sixth episode, a mysterious man in a fake mustache drives around in a white van and furtively pours chemicals into a city's water supply, while Schaeffer speculates about the possibility that the U.S. government is controlling its citizens by means of psychotropic drugs. The final two episodes of the series deal with abortion and the perils of genetic engineering.So you can see, it starts getting a little weird. Conspirializingly weird. Schaeffer died in 1984, but his son said,
"Those first episodes are what Francis Schaeffer is doing while he was sitting in Switzerland having nice discussions with people who came through to find Jesus and talk about culture and art," he said. But then the Roe decision came, and "it wasn't a theory anymore. Now 'they' are killing babies...And weirder yet:
"We had been warning that humanism followed to its logical conclusion without Biblical absolutes is going to go into terrible places, and, look, it's happening right before our very eyes. Once that happens, everything becomes a kind of holy war.."And even weirder:
Francis Schaeffer ...was a major contributor to the school of thought now known as Dominionism, which relies on Genesis 1:26 [sic]...According to the Wiki,
And God blessed [Adam and Eve] and God said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." —Genesis 1:28 (KJV)
Christians typically interpret this verse as meaning that God gave humankind responsibility over the Earth, although theologians do not all agree on the nature and extent of that "dominion".And the same Wiki defines "Dominionism":
...(also called subjectionism) is the tendency among some conservative politically-active Christians, especially in the United States, to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action.Lizza quotes a woman named Sara Diamond,
...who has written several books about evangelical movements in America, has succinctly defined the philosophy that resulted from Schaeffer's interpretation: "Christians, and Christians alone, are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns."Lizza continues,
In 1981, three years before he died, Schaeffer published "A Christian Manifesto," a guide for Christian activism, in which he argues for the violent overthrow of the government if Roe v. Wade isn't reversed.Then we get to Nancy Pearcy, another author that Bachmann likes so much:
...in 2005, the Minneapolis Star Tribune asked Bachmann what books she had read recently, she mentioned ...Pearcey's [book, "Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity"] which Bachmann told me was a "wonderful" book.In the Wiki link for Pearcy, she disputes being a Dominionist:
Today, one of the leading proponents of Schaeffer's version of Dominionism is Nancy Pearcey, a former student of his and a prominent creationist. Her 2004 book... teaches readers how to implement Schaeffer's idea that a Biblical world view should suffuse every aspect of one's life.
Ryan Lizza described Pearcey as a leading proponent of Dominionism and a prominent creationist; Pearcey disputes the label "Dominionist", noting that she had never heard the term before reading Lizza's New Yorker article...I note that this comment had to appear today -- the New Yorker story is dated tomorrow (August 15). So, clearly Pearcy is keeping tabs on things. Maybe a little more research into Schaeffer's alleged association with Dominionism is needed. I note that a search of "Francis Schaeffer Dominionism" turns up many links that dispute the Dominionist label, and blame Sara Diamond for inventing it. For instance this one picked at random:
Others might bring up Schaeffer's book, A Christian Manifesto (Crossway, 1981). For the Dominionist watcher Sarah Diamond, this book, and this book alone, seems to be the reason she labels Schaeffer a Dominionist. But did she read the book with an open mind, or did she just read it as source material for a term that she invented (Dominionism). From reading her writings it seems as though she needed to divide all the people involved with the Christian Right, a political movement, into different categories. I would probably have done the same thing if I had been in her shoes. We need to categorize different political groups so that we have an educated and well informed electorate. But with Schaeffer, it can be proven that she has put him in the wrong category. There has been too much read into what people think Schaeffer was writing about in A Christian Manifesto. For what this book is mostly about is how to construct a Christian legal foundation for fighting abortion. If you want to call Schaeffer a "godfather," don't call him the "godfather of Dominionism." Call him "the godfather of the anti-abortion movement/Pro Life Movement." If you read A Christian Manifesto from that point of view, things will start to fit together in your understanding of Schaeffer's Christian Worldview.True or not, there is certainly a great deal to dislike about Schaeffer, Pearcy and their admirer, Michele Bachmann. But is there anything to offset these negatives if our choice in the 2012 election becomes Bachmann vs. Obama?
Bachmann believes in charity, being a foster mother:
...the Bachmanns took in twenty-three girls; I spoke with one of them (she did not want her name used), who stayed with the Bachmanns for three and a half years and now lives in Colorado. She said, "I owe the Bachmanns everything. They offered me the structure I needed and taught me how to figure out goals. They really encouraged me to figure out who I was rather than who I was becoming. I turned my life around one hundred and eighty degrees."That's a lot of girls. But the weird part (yet again) is that almost all these girls had eating disorders. Eating disorders? Go figure. I wouldn't condemn anyone for charitable acts, and foster-parenting could be a legitimate value to someone for various reasons.
Maybe Michele had an eating disorder and simply wants to help these girls, but suspect the greater motivation is that she takes her evangelizing seriously enough to indoctrinate 23 girls into Christianity. It doesn't sound like they had to endure too many exorcisms, but personally, I'd take bulemia over Christianity any day, month or year.
What else can we say about Michele? According to The New Yorker, she and her husband helped start a school with some others. Ostensibly non-denominational, but both Bachmann's left the administration of the place after objections that their religious agenda was violating the school charter.
I'm running short on good things to find, but here's something, depending on your interpretation of it: Bachmann's a typical Religious Right in being mixed up about the relation between religion and freedom:
"If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty,' " Bachmann told me in early August, when I asked about her world view. "That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything—just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means. Whether it's economic liberty, religious liberty, liberty in our finances, liberty in being able to choose the profession we have. That's what inspired my relatives to come here back in the eighteen-fifties. It was the concept of liberty. That's what motivates me today as well."Maybe it's pandering to get the Tea Party vote, maybe not. She appears deeply opposed to slavery,
...the latest Bachmann controversy: an interview with George Stephanopoulos, in which she defended an earlier statement that the Founders worked tirelessly to end slavery. ...In "Christianity and the Constitution," the book she worked on with Eidsmoe, her law-school mentor, he argues that John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams "expressed their abhorrence for the institution" and explains that "many Christians opposed slavery even though they owned slaves." They didn't free their slaves, he writes, because of their benevolence. "It might be very difficult for a freed slave to make a living in that economy; under such circumstances setting slaves free was both inhumane and irresponsible."Though The New Yorker tries to suggest that Bachmann is actually rationalizing for slavery, I don't buy it.
She seems opposed to Socialism:
In one pamphlet, she wrote that federal education law "embraces a socialist, globalist worldview; loyalty to all government and not America." In another, she warned of a "new restructuring of American society," beginning with "workforce boards" that would tell every student the specific career options he or she could pursue, turning children into "human resources for a centrally planned economy."But Bachmann in 1976 supported the election of evangelical Democrat/Socialist Jimmy Carter. Go figure.
Etc. I think I've got the picture. It ain't pretty, but is she Count Dracula? Despite the potential "Dominionism" aspect (I'm just not knowledgable enough about contemporary Christianity to pass judgment on it), I suspect she's more like an evangelical Elmer Fudd. Lot's of passion for killing bunny rabbits, but largely clueless about which end of the gun to use.
We turn to the underlying point to all this.
I know we can't survive another term of Obama.
It's certainly best to do everything possible to keep her from being nominated and get a secular candidate (though a Mitt Romney strikes me in some ways as a worse candidate), but what if we don't? You're in the voting booth, the two choices are before you: Obama or Bachmann?
You think: Obama is destroying the economy, eviscerating the military, denuding our freedom, leading us into global war--and he'll complete the job in a second term. What will Bachmann do?
I'm going out on a limb here and say I'm pretty sure we could survive a President Bachmann -- because anything overtly religious that she tried to impose would be stopped (including any attempt to repeal abortion). The danger of a Christian theocracy is decades from now, not the next election. And in that time, if Objectivism takes hold, the Religious Right will find a much more capable opposition.
Many people I know are arguing that we must vote for Obama instead of any Christian because the Christians will impose a theocracy--but it does no service to the country to exaggerate their danger in the next election. If Obama wins, it is not an exaggeration to say: you can kiss this country goodbye.
I've said it till I'm blue in the face, but since I was the only one to correctly predict how destructive Obama would be, I'll say again just how destructive his second term could be: it may well lead to the complete end of all businesses in America, mass starvation, rampant riots (the riots in Britain are barely a taste), world war and death on a scale you can hardly imagine.
That's the short answer, but it's a reasonably high probability scenario. Maybe not 50%, but high enough. Do you want to roll those dice?
You say: Robb's going off on his rant again. Someone get him a Xanax.
For those of you who think that, ask yourself: what would you have thought would happen to the world in 1938? I'd bet you would have considered World War 2 and the death of 100 million people in the next 7 years... inconceivable.
To borrow a line from Inigo Montoya, that word may not mean what you think it does.
Re-read Atlas Shrugged. Was Ayn Rand any less pessimistic than I am?
So gauge your decision in that light: Obama is certain destruction, but Bachmann is potential destruction-- someone who sounds like she might like to impose a theocracy, and doubtless a lot of Christian supporters would be pushing her toward that end. But can she get away with it?
In a recent podcast, even Leonard Peikoff has admitted he underestimated Obama's danger to the survival of the country, and advocated voting for Republican's across the board in the mid-term election we just had. His point was essentially the one I've been making for a longer time: it does no good to claim a moral righteousness for opposing religion if you're dead.
You can listen to his comments here if you need proof ("Is religion more dangerous in America than socialism or collectivism", July 20, 2009).
Contrast to his comments on May 17, 2010, only 10 months later ("Given the Obama Administration and your stand on Republicans, will you support a vote for a Republican in November?").
So before anyone gets too wrapped up in demonizing every candidate who ever went to church, spoke in tongues and shouted "hallelujah!", consider the alternative: one candidate is a man who is working by conscious, deliberate intent to destroy the United States as rapidly as he can--Obama.
Then concretize the worst consequences of the worst Christian candidate out there right now -- Michele Bachmann (no, it's not Palin).
One candidate will destroy by malice aforethought, using nuclear weapons (possibly literally). One will stumble forward in a religious ecstasy, erecting random crucifixes, ranting about God, creating a few random programs to advocate for religion, but in the end doing very little that will materially affect your life.
The other will destroy your life.
ON the upside (if there is one), should the prospect of a President Bachmann materialize, I think she will at least buy us a few years time to spread the right ideas, especially among the Tea Party.
I can't say the same about Obama. Where Bachmann will try to impose some early steps toward theocracy, Obama is already imposing many steps toward a communist totalitarianism.
For another upside, in a certain very important sense, where Obama's election provided the chance to permanently discredit the Marxist Left (when the NY Times turns on you, as they have, you're done) and galvanize the secular Right, there is likewise an argument to be made (I offer it guardedly) that a President Bachmann will discredit the Religious Right and galvanize the secular Left--and that would leave the field open in 2016 (maybe) for someone more rational.
I'm not saying it is certain Bachmann will be nominated. I very much hope she won't be, and she should be opposed at all costs. But if she is nominated, how would you decide to vote? That's the issue. Some people I know are campaigning on a platform of "everyone has to vote for Obama instead of any religious candidate from the Right!"
But that's almost a vote of suicide.
In my view, a second Obama term is so dangerous to the existential survival of the country that there's very few candidates I won't vote for. Huckabee would be one, but he's dropped out (for now--I'm betting he fishes for a vice-presidential slot). Maybe I'm underestimating the danger of Bachmann--possibly; I might change my mind in the coming months. But if it gets so bad that I have no choice in the coming election for anyone who offers me any advantage over suicide under Obama--it will be time to get out of Dodge.


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The Cincinnati Bengals are looking into providing a backup option to starting tight end Jermaine Gresham.
According to Adam Caplan of TheSidelineView.com, the Bengals are bringing in former Cleveland Browns tight end Alex Smith for a visit this week. Smith has played in 26 games over the last two seasons for the Browns. He's caught 27 passes for 178 yards over that span.
Smith served in an H-back type role for the Browns as he lined up on the line of scrimmage and in the backfield. The Bengals are thin at the position with Orson Charles and Richard Quinn as the only other tight ends on the roster.


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Sarah Palin, who is widely tipped as a possible Republican candidate for president in 2012, has said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be hunted down in the way armed forces are targeting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Her outburst comes during a week when the WikiLeaks founder faced troubling accusations, with the Interpol international police organisation putting him on 'red notice' for alleged offences. The notice does not amount to an arrest warrant but is aimed at locating Assange, whose whereabouts have been unknown for some time.
Assange denies the allegations, and has branded them part of a smear campaign against him. The accusations began to surface in August. Around that month Assange was preparing to release a stash of communications from US ambassadors, revealing high level doubts over David Cameron's ability as British prime minister, details that the US authorities had sanctioned spying on United Nations officials, and claims that China had hacked into Google. Assange is now targeting big business in the next data release.
In an outburst on Facebook this week, Palin - who once encouraged oil companies to "drill, baby, drill" in the middle of an Arctic wildlife reserve - branded Assange an "anti-American operative with blood on his hands".
She wrote: "Assange is not a 'journalist', any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine Inspire is a 'journalist'." But in a 2008 US television interview with presenter Katie Couric, Palin herself appeared unable to name the newspapers she reads.
Palin continued: "His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders?"
She claimed WikiLeaks' financial assets should be frozen "just as we do to individuals who provide material support for terrorist organisations".
She said "cyber tools" should be used to "permanently dismantle WikiLeaks". In an interview with Forbes magazine, Assange was asked for a response to rumours that famous hacker Peiter Zatko, who also goes by the name 'Mudge', was working with the Pentagon to develop technology that can stop such data leaks. He declined to comment directly, but asserted that new forms of communication were always a step ahead of technology aimed at stopping them.
Remarks spreading this week across the US political spectrum demonstrate the increasing concern over the comments of ambassadors being unveiled by WikiLeaks. The news has been plastered across newspapers and the internet.
The Obama administration said the WikiLeaks documents had a "fairly modest" impact on US policy. Nevertheless, it has opened an urgent data security review.


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So long and thanks for all the fish
TRC is now closed as an active forum, it is now a read only archive.
Head of to Rev to the Limit to get your forum fix.
Tish & tosh & hopefully the odd thing of use. Doubtful though.
I like (just as well) make do & mend & I adore a bang for me buck. Here's what I've found over the years.
Part 1: Laptops
The least easy to take apart. And the shortest lived. Some even have vital things soldered in-notably apples. Generally speaking if it was a decent quality (not necc high spec) machine to start with it's prob worth it. But screens do not last forever (not a prob, simp plug in an external monitor) the socket where you plug the power in
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Scientists & Statistics/ Engineers & Results
Here's the thing-whatever science you did at GSCE, A level & to a certain extent 1st year Uni is something of a series of reducing simplifications, which at GSCE is pretty much 'lies to children.' It is something of a shock in your 2nd year to see a textbook on the reading list described as 'An Elementary Primer to xyz', when your last book had 'Advanced' as the 1st word in its title….**
The maths
found this on a FB site: https://www.facebook.com/groups/globalskywatch/
The Frank Church Congressional Hearings of 1975 exposed the Central Intelligence Agency biological weapons contracting firms – Litton Bionetics and the Army Corp of Engineers who were developing and utilizing various biological weapons on populations. And this is all done under black operations, covert operations, where they get funding and congressional people are never informed
It started with a stone cold meal from McD's at Peterborough Services at lunchtime last Thursday. By the time I discovered this I was on my way. I was knackered & needed something hot-otherwise I would have gone to M&S as I usually do. So that was all fine & dandy. I did actually go to the trouble of filling in their on-line feedback form. I got this yesterday morning:
"The restaurant you have referred to is run by our franchisee, Matthew Jarrett. As the owner of
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been a tad quiet around these parts so I thought I'd share last night's headbanger. Do have it mind that it was just a dream though. It's a slightly more thorough variation on the usual 'lost' meme.
Starts at Heathrow with Ma & Bear (my parents) I think. Holiday time & we're going to the USA. We've done the usual idiots lining up landside at baggage check in asking the same question i.e when are you doing flight xyz?


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From Our House to Yours – Christmas Decor 2012
Gorgeous!!! Loved seeing all this. You always make everything look so beautiful in your home. Happy New Year Stephanie!
Everything is pretty and perfect! Love it all. Great style. Happy New Year!
Beautiful…precious…perfect! Your holiday home is comforting and so beautifully styled! I especially love those window wreaths.
Oh my goodness Stephanie Lynn, your home is so gorgeous. I love all of your holiday decorations. Thank you for the beautiful tour!
So pretty, clean and simple!! It's stunning!!!
Everything looks so beautiful. I love the Christmas tree in the basket. Your tables setting is so lovely, too. Perfect!! Looks like someone loves his atv.
The little guy looks like he is having too much fun! Happy new year.
I think your snowman has the sniffles. We have some of the same ornaments, like that Santa. 🙂
I so enjoyed seeing your Christmas decor especially here in January when I have time to sit and enjoy it all! Your tablescape is lovely with the plaid and mercury trees/balls and glass hurricanes for candles – great design!
Thanks for including pictures of your little guy!! His smiles are just wonderful!! Great decorating once again!! Can you show us the playroom?
I just love your real snow decorations. I live in Perth, Australia and I have never seen snow. Our Christmases are usually sweltering century degrees. Love your house too!
What a wonderful, gorgeous, welcoming home you have. Your decorations are splendid. Love all those little silver trees on your table and everything else. You must be a very busy gal to keep your home so pretty. I'd be embarrassed for anybody to see mine lately.
A guy was coming to fix our furnace today, luckily he was late so I had time to put things away and straighten up. Phew.
Yes we were blessed with over $800 in parts/labor to fix our furnace, I had to have skin cancer cut out of my left boob last Thursday, I'm afraid of what the 3rd. thing could be. Isn't that how it works, troublesome things happen in 3's? Since it's been very cold here just have to have the furnace fixed. Our house was built in 1998 so the old furnace is over 14 yrs. old. Should be glad it waited this long, lol.
Hope your holidays were everything you could hope for, your little guy looks like he was having a great time. That's quite a vehicle he's driving. Was that his favorite toy? Wishing you and yours a very happy 2013.
Your posts always warm my heart and make me smile. You give so much, what a blessing you are to all of us. Thank you for sharing your inner light – it is shining brightly and beautifully!
What a beautiful and stylish home, I love seeing what you do. Thanks
Everything is beautiful! Thanks for sharing! Happy New Year!
Hi Stephanie Lynn – I contacted you a week or so ago about linking back to your tutorial for rolled paper roses, and had not heard back from you yet . . . . I went ahead and included your link and information in the January issue of our online Christian women's magazine, Ruby for Women. We will also promote your site on our community site and blog, if that's OK with you – if not, please just email me and we will remove it right away ;o) I love your creative ideas and I know our readers and members will also be delighted to stop by and visit you. Thanks so much, Nina @ Ruby for Women
PS we do not sell our magazine, it is free of charge to anyone who wants to read it, and we have lots of women who take advantage of all of the free recipes, crafts, articles, poems, and stories each month. Thanks again, Nina
Beautiful pictures of your lovely home. Thank you for sharing your home and decorations with us!
Gorgeous Stephanie Lynn! Thank you for sharing.
Your home looks lovely! Wanted to thank you for the paperwhite tutorial. Made a dozen for gifts and several larger ones fory living room. Love the bright green on these dark winter days.
Your home looks lovely! Wanted to thank you for the paperwhite tutorial. Made a dozen for gifts and several larger ones fory living room. Love the bright green on these dark winter days.
Stunning decor! Great job!
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Stephanie, your home is just so pretty…warm and inviting and cheerful, but not manic. (You know, some decor ends up looking like Mardi Gras – may be creative but it doesn't feel like home or Christmas.)
i think the paper roses will drive me to drink…..it is amazing how many it takes to make 3 wreathes…but lovely!
Beautifully decorated.
Happy New Yer to you and yours


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ATHENS—Falcon International Reservoir joined the Toyota ShareLunker action on Thursday, February 7, with a 13.4-pound entry into the ShareLunker program.
Isaac Denson of Monahans was fishing in two to three feet of water when the big bass hit about 11:30 a.m. The fish was 26.5 inches long and 20 inches in girth.
The fish was weighed and held for pickup at the official Toyota ShareLunker Weigh and Holding Station at Falcon State Park. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department staff from the A.E. Wood State Fish Hatchery in San Marcos picked the fish up and took it to San Marcos, where it is awaiting the results of DNA testing.
If the fish is pure Florida largemouth, it will be taken to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) in Athens and held for spawning; otherwise, it will be returned to the lake as quickly as possible.
The fish is the fifth entry of the season into the Toyota ShareLunker program, following entries from Lakes Austin, Fork (two entries) and Dunlap.
The largest entry of the season to date is Richard Scibek's 16.04-pounder caught from Lake Fork on February 2. The angler who catches the largest entry of the season is named Angler of the Year and receives a prize package from G. Loomis consisting of a G. Loomis GLX854C jig and worm rod, a Shimano Chronarch 200E7 casting reel and a spool of Power Pro super-braid fishing line. If the Angler of the Year is a Texas resident, he or she also receives a lifetime fishing license.
Anyone legally catching a 13-pound or bigger largemouth bass from Texas waters, public or private, between October 1 and April 30 may submit the fish to the Toyota ShareLunker program by calling the ShareLunker hotline at (903) 681-0550 or paging (888) 784-0600 and leaving a phone number including area code. Fish will be picked up by TPWD personnel within 12 hours.
ShareLunker entries are used in a selective breeding program at TFFC in Athens. Some of the offspring from these fish are stocked back into the water body from which they were caught. Any lake producing an entry into the program receives a share of the fingerlings, whether the fish from that lake spawns or not. Anglers who enter fish into the program receive a free replica of their fish, a certificate and ShareLunker clothing and are recognized at a banquet at TFFC whether their fish spawns or not.
For complete information and rules of the ShareLunker program, tips on caring for big bass, a list of official Toyota ShareLunker weigh and holding stations and a recap of last year's season, see http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/sharelunker. The site also includes a searchable database of all fish entered into the program along with pictures where available.
Information on current catches, including short videos of interviews with anglers when available, is posted on http://www.facebook.com/sharelunkerprogram.
The Toyota ShareLunker Program is made possible by a grant to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation from Gulf States Toyota. Toyota is a long-time supporter of the Foundation and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, providing major funding for a wide variety of education, fish, parks and wildlife projects.


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As part of our travel with children week, Ross McGovern recounts one particularly fraught journey with kids in tow.
Travelling with children is hard enough at the best of times, but my trip to the ecumenical community of Taize in France with a four-year-old was particularly ill-planned. I'd seriously underestimated her capacity for road travel and unbenown to me she was developing something that would require crushed-up French antibiotics (serve with jam to taste) later in the week. Here's how our journey to France unfolded – or should that be unravelled….
5am Board coach. Rosie informs bus that she feels sick. Passengers smile indulgently.
5.05am Coach stops to allow Rosie to vomit copiously into the street.
5.15am Coach reaches motorway. Sleeping passengers treated to high-volume Super Mario music until the offending gadget is found and disabled by an increasingly stressed dad.
6.30am After a while lost in her game, Rosie realises we're on a motorway and decides she wants to play punch buggy. It's hard getting rules across to a four-year-old and the best I've managed is to teach her to punch people every time she sees a car.
7am Coach pulls into motorway services. We disembark, Rosie pretending she's playing the zombie-slaughter arcade games while I buy some painkillers. At this point of the journey I make a foolish decision, and allow her to accept a packet of sweets from an elderly passenger who clearly hasn't had children in a very long time.
7.45am After three headcounts which fail to locate me and Rosie, we're found in the cafe where I'm trying to convince her to put her shoes back on. We board the bus in hysterics with only the prospect of sweets to encourage Rosie.
8am With hindsight I should really have read the packaging. When it says "excessive consumption may produce mild laxative effect" it's really talking about adults. Nobody has thought about what happens if a four year old girl consumes the entire packet in five minutes.
8.15am Rosie goes off like a lawn sprinkler and is bundled quickly into the toilet. The bus driver protests that it's not designed for solids, but (a) we're not really dealing with solids here and (b) confronted with the alternative and its effect on the cheerful coach upholstery, he backs down. In fact he quickly requests that we stay in the toilet until we find another service station.
8.30am We and several others passengers who'd been seated near us get off the bus to go and clean up a bit in the service station toilets. I have a fresh change of clothes for Rosie and she's quickly returned to mint condition. Other passengers, not having expected this necessity, have to make do. I offer round baby wipes.
9am Back on the coach. Passengers no longer smiling indulgently.
10am Coach approaches Dover. The ferry ride should be an easier time - Rosie will love being on a boat, and she'll be delighted to think that she's going to a foreign country. Er... Oh God.
10.10am Feverishly check passports.
10.15am Sheepishly phone passport office.
10.45am Fellow passengers devastated to see us trudge off towards the station for an impromptu trip into London for emergency passport for Rosie. Strange sound of singing as coach pulls away.
12.15pm Arrive in London. Throw all the money we have at a taxi driver until he takes us to passport office, which turns out to be so near Victoria Station that he should be done for fraud. We are welcomed into the passport office by a lovely smiley lady who is very sympathetic and tells us, smilingly and sympathetically, that we'll have to wait about two hours.
1.15pm Rosie has had all the entertainment she can get out of wriggling under seats and she begins to climb things.
2pm Passport issued. It looks stupid and costs a fortune. We clatter back to the station in time to see the train pull away, and then make a quick beeline for the tube in case we can get the Eurostar from St Pancras instead. London being London, it's rush hour all day and it's hard to hold onto Rosie's grubby little hand in the melee. Nonetheless she thoroughly enjoys seeing the tube and delights in the stories of werewolves I tell her about the tunnels. Commuters less impressed but we make it to Euston and the walk to St Pancras gives us the capital's very special version of fresh air - our last for some time.
3.31pm Eurostar pulls expensively out of St Pancras with us both feeling quite relieved. Rosie falls asleep on my knee. I fall asleep on her head. We both dribble.
6.47pm PARIS! The air in the terminal is sweet with the smell of freshly baked croissants and cheeses. Not really. It's another terminal. We follow lots of arrows and Rosie complains. Then we board a bus and we're at Le Gare de Lyons. From here, in theory and according to the Taize website, it's a cinch to get to Taize, requiring just two second class TGV tickets to Mâcon-Loché.
7.53pm We just scrape aboard the last TGV. The prospect of spending the night in the Gare de Lyons sounded good to Rosie but less so to me. Rosie declares once again that she feels sick, and we eat the remains of our second packed lunch. The good news is that the coach passengers will all be sleeping the night away on the coach, which is even worse. Serve them right for looking at me funny when my daughter puked on them.
9.30pm We stumble out into the warm night of Mâcon-Loché TGV station with an air of expectancy and are alarmed to find that there's no bus. In fact there simply won't BE a bus until tomorrow. I'd love to put this down to timetable failure but the fact is, the last connection simply hadn't occurred to me. You'd think Rosie might have reminded me but she seems more interested in sleeping.
10.30pm After some awkward phone calls we get a taxi, which costs 100 Euros and takes half an hour. The air when we finally arrive in Taize is genuinely warm and Rosie only throws up a tiny bit more. The Brothers are kind enough to let us pay later in the week once we've had time to do some telephoning and get some more money onto the debit card. They also welcome us with timeless patience in Olinda, the family building, despite our arrival some 12 hours ahead of our coach.
The rest of the week is serene and peaceful, and Rosie plays with children of various different nationalities without any trouble over language. They all simply jabber at one another in what they imagine to be a serviceable version of the other's tongue. Once Rosie's asleep, I nip down to the chapel under the building and sit for a few moments in the cool. I'm a confused sceptic at the best of times but if anything ever deserved a prayer of thanks, it would be a journey with a child successfully completed.
Have you attempted a long coach or train journey with children? Share your anecdotes and advice below.
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